Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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